SSC QUESTION LEAKS Govt probe body finds questions leaked

The government committee has found that several leaked multiple choice questions of one or two subjects matched those given to the examinees at exam hall during this year’s Secondary School Certificate examinations.
Members of the committee formed to investigate allegations of question leak said on Sunday that they would not make any recommendations that would harm the students.
‘We would submit our recommendations in a day or two,’ the committee chief and madrassah and technical education secretary, Md Alamgir, said after a meeting of the committee.
‘Examinees should not be worried about exam’s fate as we will not make any kind of recommendation that will harm them,’ he added.
‘Several questions of MCQ part of one or two subjects matched those given to the examinees at the hall,’ Alamgir said.
Secondary and higher education secretary Sohorab Hossain told New Age that they would decide if the exam would be cancelled or not only after getting the report of the committee.
‘Decision of cancelling an exam is not an easy task. If the question leak was proved, we would consider the impact of the leakage and how many students have been affected,’ he said.
The government on February 4 formed the committee amid widespread allegations of question leak in the first two SSC exams. 
The committee is responsible for putting forward recommendations including the one about if the question paper leak rumours are true or not and if exams will be cancelled.
An investigation committee member said that they in two meetings on February 11 and 18 reviewed the allegations of question leaks.
The written part of this year’s SSC exam, which witnessed the largest ever spate of question leaks in the history of country’s public exams, concluded on Sunday with music exam, without any report of question leak.
The question paper leaks started with beginning of the public exam on February 1. It continued till February 22 when questions of Bangla 1st and 2nd papers, English 1st and 2nd papers, religion and moral studies, general maths, physics, chemistry, Bangladesh and global studies, biology and higher maths were reportedly leaked at least one hour before the starting of the exams.
Among the seventeen days of the written exam schedule, the question leaks were not reported on Saturday in geography and environment studies exams while question of accounting exam on February 20 was not also leaked.
Examinees and their guardians said that the questions, mostly the multiple choice questions, were leaked and found posted in several Facebook and Whatsapp groups before the start of exams at 10:00am.
They also alleged that the leaked questions were sold for Tk 500 to Tk 
3000, but later the questions were found free in social media.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid on February 1 said that if the allegation of question leak of any paper was proved, the exam would be retaken. 
The government on February 4 announced a bounty of Tk 5 lakh on any person involved in question leak, following the allegations of multiple choice question leaks in Bangla 1st and 2nd paper exams on February 1 and 3.
Besides, law enforcement agencies, so far arrested 
153 people including at 
least ten teachers, and 53 cases were filed in this regard. 
When government efforts failed to check the malpractice, on February 15, the High Court for the first time appointed two five-member committees, including a judicial committee, to find out those involved in leaking papers.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net